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Blog: ...but I could have killed them!  



Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic were the first men in the European history of law to be condemned for torture, enslavement, violation of the human dignity and mass rape. They couldn't understand why they were charged, and one of them defended himself by saying " But I could have killed them!" - he was SAVING these women from death, what is a little enslavement, rape and torture compared to that?

I remember reading about the rape camps... concentration camps where women of all ages, some children, some elderly, were collected and used as whores. I remember reading about how a 12-years-old girl was raped in front of her mother and grandmother to force the elder women into submission. I remember reading how the Serbian soldiers were expected to use the "facility" and never use the same woman twice - as that might create an emotional connection and bond and make the rape less hurtful. Also, if the men realized they were raping real human beings, persons, people with dreams, opinions, experiences, it would become harder for them to rape the women.

Slavenka Drakulic is an author who were there, watching the trials. She remembers very clearly a mother of a 12-years-old girl. One of these men had taken the girl, used her and then sold her for about 100 Euros... and the mother never saw the girl again. No-one knows what happened to her. The mother was there to testify against the man, but she couldn't say a word... she was standing there crying without tears, the unbearable sound of a mortally wounded animal...

P.S. My mother was reminded of a Donna Leon book, "Death and Judgement" (Venetian Reckoning). What can we do to stop trafficking, rape of the victims of the war, selling young women, even children, to prostitution...?

One thing you can do is to sign the petition: Prevent and eventually abolish child sexual abuse by UN
Come on now! Not even 500 signatures!

Posted: Sunday June 29, 2008, 3:00 am
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